Merge Records Gets Destroyer, New Pornographers, Wye Oak for 35th Anniversary Festival
Superchunk, Fruit Bats, Torres, the Clientele, Hiss Golden Messenger and more will also perform at the event in Carrboro, NC, this July
Set to take place at the historic Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC, this July 24 to 27, Merge 35 is the latest instalment in the series of hometown festival celebrations the revolutionary indie mecca throws every five years to commemorate its 1989 founding — the same year label co-founders Mac MacCaughan and Laura Ballance started Superchunk.
It perhaps goes without saying that Superchunk will be among the Merge artists old and new performing at this year's event, as well as Destroyer, New Pornographers, Wye Oak, Fruit Bats, Torres, the Clientele, Hiss Golden Messenger, Mary Timony, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn and more.
Find the full lineup of performers in alphabetical order below. Tickets for Merge 35 go on sale next Friday (February 9) at 11 a.m. ET.
Merge Records 35:
A Giant Dog
Eric Bachmann
Greg Cartwright (of Reigning Sound)
The Clientele
Destroyer
Friendship
Fruit Bats
Hiss Golden Messenger
Imperial Teen
David Kilgour
Mike Krol
Lambchop
H.C. McEntire
Carson McHone
M(h)aol
The New Pornographers
Previous Industries
Redd Kross
Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
Rosali
Superchunk
Mary Timony
Torres
William Tyler
Wye Oak